"jallaballa" <jallaballa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
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> I'm having a problem with my Vista Business installation. Sometimes, for
> no
> apparent reason, it locks up for a couple of seconds at a time with about
> 40
> seconds apart. During this time the mouse don't move, I can't type, if I'm
> watching some video it freezes and so on. I have no anti virus besides
> OneCare installed and the problem was there before I installed that. I've
> tried shutting down all open applications but it happens anyway. Then it
> goes
> away by itself only to come back maybe 20 minutes later. I've tried
> looking
> in the task manager to see if i can spot any process taking up the CPU but
> I
> see nothing suspicious.
>
> I've made two screenshots of how the performance tab looks like in the
> task
> manager when I'm watching a video, one with the problem "active" and one
> where it's behaving a bit better.
>
> No problem -> [url]http://i19.tinypic.com/4c7xv6c.png[/url]
> Problem -> [url]http://i7.tinypic.com/3y29zep.png[/url]
>
> I've noticed that there's one active process more in the second picture
> but
> I don't think that's it.[/color]


Check if the drive is in PIO mode instead of DMA. Start Orb | Type Device
manager | Click on it (or if not running as an administrator right click and
choose Run as Administrator). Expand the a hard drive controller section,
double click on the Channel, and click the Advanced Settings tab. PIO or
DMA?

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]